Freedom has a face : race, identity, and community in Jefferson's Virginia /

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Author / Creator:	Von Daacke, Kirt, 1968-
Imprint:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (288 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Carter G. Woodson Institute Series Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
Subject:	Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History -- 19th century. Free African Americans. Free African Americans -- Social conditions. Race relations. Albemarle County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century. Albemarle County (Va.) -- Race relations. Virginia -- Albemarle County. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216006

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ISBN:	9780813933108 0813933102 9780813933092 0813933099
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This book tells the stories of free blacks who worked hard to carve out comfortable spaces for existence. They were denied full freedom, but they were neither slaves without masters nor anomalies in a society that had room only for black slaves and free white citizens. A typical rural Piedmont county, Albemarle was not a racial utopia. Rather, it was a tight-knit community in which face-to-face interactions determined social status and reputation. A steep social hierarchy allowed substantial inequalities to persist, but it was nonetheless an intimately interracial society.
Other form:	Print version: Von Daacke, Kirt, 1968- Freedom has a face. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012 9780813933092 0813933099

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